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...year after the Truman order, and the Marine Corps moved ahead. The Army, as Author Nichols says, was "the mule of the military team." Korea changed that; there simply were not enough white replacements, and field commanders were forced to fill in with Negroes. Once away from his Jim Crow unit, the Negro was a different soldier. How different became readily apparent in the results of Project Clear, an Army survey of the new racial policy. Items: ¶ On the test of standing up to mass attack, where Negro soldiers had had a reputation for taking to their heels...
...While awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the question of segregation in the public schools, Mississippi came to a decision of its own: the state senate voted down an amendment to the Mississippi constitution that would have allowed the legislature to keep Jim Crow by putting the public schools into private hands...
Four Corners. From the actual plaintiffs and defendants he represents, Marshall gets not a cent; the N.A.A.C.P. and its Legal Fund (combined annual budget: $500,000) pay him a flat $12,000 a year to give first-class counsel to Jim Crow's "secondclass citizens." Marshall generally has a running headstart on opposing lawyers in civil rights cases; the law he made yesterday is today's precedent. Four of Marshall's victories have become the constitutional cornerstones of the Negro's new civil rights: Smith v. Allwright, outlawing the Texas "white primary" and opening...
Young Marshall went to Jim Crow public schools himself, then to Pennsylvania's private, predominantly Negro, Lincoln University. On the side. he worked as grocery clerk, dining-car waiter, baker. His father wanted Thurgood to study law; no law school in Maryland would accept a Negro...
Between these two extremes, best represented in Africa by Prime Minister Nkrumah's self-governing Gold Coast and Prime Minister Malan's Jim Crow South Africa, there is a no man's land of strife, where one day it will be decided whether Empire can change to Commonwealth across the barriers of race...